Coin-controlled picture-exhibiting apparatus.



No. 726,240. 'PATENTED APR, 28, 1903.

' J. 0. P. ATSATT.

COIN CONTROLLED PICTURE EXHIBITING APPARATUS.

' APPLICATION FILED MAY 21, 1902.

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APPLICATION FILED MAY 21, 1902.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JOHN C. F. ATSATT, OF MATTAPOISETT, MASSACHUSETTS, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TO ISAIAH P. ATSATT, OF MATTAPOISETT, MASSACHU- SETTS.

COIN-CONTROLLED PICTURE-EXHIBITING APPARATUS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 726,240, dated April 28, 1903.

Application filed May 21, 1902. Serial No. 108,3 24. on) model.)

T to whom it may OOH/06 The picture-carrier H is shown as a cylin- Be it known that 1, JOHN C. F. ATSATT, a der, having at one end a short journal I, that citizen of the United States, residing at Matenters the bearing G, and at its opposite end tapoisett, in the county of Plymouth and .said cylinder has fixed to it by screws 2 a State of Massachusetts, have invented an Imcasting L, having the shape best shown in 5 provement in Coin-Controlled Picture-Ex- Figs. 8 and 4. The casting has a plurality hibitingApparatus, of whichthefollowing deof coin-pockets a, any desired number, acscription, in connection with the accompanycording to the extent it is desired to rotate ing drawings, is a specification, like characthe cylinder between one and the next preters on the drawings representing like parts. payment. The casting has a projecting cen- This invention has for its object the protral portion 1), suitably bored, that is enduction of a novel coin-controlled apparatus gaged by the shank c of a knob d, representfor exhibiting pictures preferably in the ed as extended through the end of the box form of photographs. and into a hole in the bearing G, the inner 15 In my apparatus the photographs to be exend of said shank being connected with the hibited are provided with metallic clips that central portion 1) of said casting by a pin 3. embrace and are free to turn on metallic The portion 1) of the casting has two like rerods secured to a picture-carrier. The carcesses or slots 4, that extend across the pockrier may be rotated only after depositing a ets a, and in said recesses I have mounted 2o coin in a coin-chute, said coin serving to reon pivots 5 levers or latches 6 7, the outer 7o lease a lever or latch that restrains the roends of said levers being represented as the ration of the carrier, so that a person enheavier, so that either lever when occupying gaging a knob connected with the carrier a position at the upper side of the longitudimay rotate the latter. The lever referred to nal center of the cylinder may contact with V 25 acts automatically at the proper intervals in a shoulder 8 of the projecting hub 10 of the 7 the rotation of the carrier to engage a part bearing G. Figs. 1, 4, and 5 show the lever of the apparatus independent of the carrier 6 as contacting with the shoulder 8 of said to therebyrestrain furtherrotation of the carhub, the cylinder being supposed to be at rier. rest ready to be started by dropping a coin 0 Figure 1 is a right-hand side elevation of a into the open upper end of the coin-chute e,

picture-exhibiting apparatus embodying my exposed at the upper side of the apron. invention. Fig. 2 is a rear end View with the The cylinder H has attached to its surface door removed. Fig. 3 is a detail showing one a series of rods f, each having a shoulder 12 end of the carrier removed from its inclosing said rod being further bent to form pronged 3 5 box. Fig. 4 is a partial longitudinal secfeet g, that may be driven into the cylinder,

tion of said carrier in the dotted line at, Fig. as shown in Figs. 3 and 4.

3, said figure showing part of the box, the The photographs or other pictures f to be knob, and part of one picture. Fig. 5 is'a exhibited have applied to their edges a plusection looking to the left of the dotted line rality of metal clips 14, that embrace the rods 40 at, Fig. 4. f, so that said pictures are free to turn about The box A, preferably of wood and quadsaid rods as the cylinder is rotated to expose rangular in shape, is sustained on a suitable to View one picture after another. post 13. The box has a removable rear door Assuming that the cylinder is at rest in the C, adapted to be locked in place in any usual positions Figs. 1, 2, and 4, the person desir- 5 manner, and at its front side the box has an ous of seeing the pictures will drop a coin h 5 inclined apron D, that sustains any usual in the coin-chute e, and said coin will follow stereopticon eyepiece E. Portion of said box said chute and enter the pocket 0. then uphas ground-glass plates F, as desired, to adpermost and, meeting the inner end of the mit light to the box. The box has secured overbalanced lever 6, will cause said lever to 50 to its interior bearing-blocks G G. be turned so that its outer end will be lifted 10o above the shoulder 8, and the person desiring to see the pictures holding the knob d in hand may then turn the cylinder and expose the pictures one after another.

As herein shown, the cylinder when given one-half a rotation is arrested by the lever 7 meeting the stop 8, and before the cylinder can be again moved to show other pictures another coin must he dropped into the coinchute to trip the lever '7, as described of lever 6.

Between the pockets at the castingL has a circular flange 12, that acts to sustain the edge of a coin dropped into the chute should one of the pockets at such time be out of position to receive a coin. The coin so sustained by the flange during the rotation of the cylinder will enter the first pocket to come under it and will operate the lever located at that pocket, so that a coin dropped at an inopportune moment will not be lost.

The box has a picture-sustainer, shown as a plate m, and a picture-arrester, shown as an arm 01. Viewing Fig. 1, two pictures are shown as held back by the arrester n to thereby separate them from the uppermost picture f of the series of pictures resting on and held by the sustaincr in position to be viewed.

In the rotation of the cylinder one picture after another passes the arrester and is received and held in position by the sustainer, and each picture, viewed for the desired time, passes finally in the rotation of the cylinder from the sustainer and swings into the box under the cylinder.

It will be understood that the cylinder may be moved forwardly to expose pictures by depositing a coin in the chute; but to prevent any backward rotation of the cylinder and to also leave the cylinder at rest in such position that the lever next the shoulder 8 will not be restrained frictionally by side pressure against said shoulder I have provided a backstop 0, made as a lever pivoted at 0 and provided at its end next the cylinder with a yielding buffer 0 and a spring 0 connected with a removable door 0, acts constantly against the back-stop to keep its free end pressed toward the cylinder and against the edge 12 of the casting L. The cylinder is provided with a projection 22, that in the rotation of the carrier in the direction of the arrow thereon, Fig. 1, meets the buffer at the end of the back-stop o, and said projection turns said stop backwardlyor to the right, viewing Fig. 1; but the spring 0 acts instantly to return the back-stop and cause the buffer to meet the flange 12 of the casting to prevent any extended backward rotation of said cylinder. The cylinder has a projection 22 so located thereon with relation to the levers 6 and 7 that said projection will meet the spring-pressed baok-stop just before the ends of said lever come in contact with said shoulder and will slightly raise said back-stop, so that when the lever meets said shoulder and the rotation of the cylinder is stopped said back-stop bearing on said projection and acted upon by the spring will move the cylinder backwardly just far enough to relieve the control of the lever with said shoulder, so that when a coin is again paid to the apparatus the lever may be moved without any friction due to contact with said shoulder.

By mounting the coin-controlled devices on and so as to rotate with the cylinder it becomes possible to greatly simplify the construction of such devices and reduce their cost.

The coin-controlled devices may be used to advantage in other apparatus wherein it is desired to make prepayment to insure delivery of some article.

Having described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, 1s

1. In a coin-controlled picture-exhibiting apparatus, a carrier having a series of pictures and provided at its end beyond the picture carrying portion with a radial coinpocket shaped to receive a coin, the inner end of said pocket stopping short of the axis of the carrier, a lever pivotally supported by the carrier adjacent one end thereof outside of said pocket at a point beyond the picturecarrying portion and having one end of said lever projecting toward and beneath the inner end of the radial coin-pocket, and a fixed stop disposed beyond the picture-carrying portion adjacent one end of the carrier adapted to be engaged by said lever during rotation of the carrier after the discharge of a coin from said pocket, said lever being turned and disengaged from said stop by a coin deposited in the pocket.

2. In a coin-controlled picture-exhibiting apparatus, a rotatable carrier having a series of pictures connected therewith, a plurality of coin-pockets each of less depth than the radius of the carrier and radially disposed beyond the picture-carrying portion of the carrier, a plurality of levers movable with the carrier, said levers being disposed at one end of the carrier beyond the picture-carrying portion with an end of each lever projecting toward and beneath the inner end of a coin-pocket, and a coin-chute to receive a coin and direct it into one of the coin-pockets.

3. In a coin-controlled picture-exhibiting apparatus, a casing, a carrier for pictures, a plurality of coin-pockets radially disposed with relation to the carrier, the inner ends of said pockets stopping short of the axis of the carrier, a plurality of levers each having one end disposed beneath the inner end of a coinpocket, and the other end extended longitudinally of the carrier, and a stop secured to the casing beyond the picture-carrying portion of the carrier and adapted to be engaged by the said other end of the levers.

4. In a coin-controlled picture-exhibiting apparatus, a casing, a carrier for pictures, a plurality of coin pockets radially disposed with relation to the carrier, the-inner ends of said pockets stopping short of the axis of the carrier, and disposed to support a coin with its face substantially at right angles to the axis of said carrier, a plurality of levers each having one end disposed beneath the inner end of a coin-pocket, and the other end extended longitudinally of the carrier, and a stop secured to the casing beyond the picturecarrying portion of the carrier and adapted to be engaged by the said other end of the levers.

5. In a coin-controlled picture-exhibiting apparatus, a casing, a carrier for pictures, a plurality of coin-pockets radially disposed with relation to the carrier, the inner ends of the pockets stopping short of the axis of the carrier, a ledge extending between the pockets to sustain a coin that fails to enter a pocket, a plurality of overbalanced levers each having one end extending beneath the inner end of a radial coin-pocket and its opposite end extended in a direction substantially of the axis of the carrier, and a stop on the casing at the end of the carrier with which said levers are adapted to engage.

6. In an apparatus of the class described, a casing, a carrier having a series of pictures, a casting rotatable with the carrier and presentin g a plurality of radially-disposed pockets the inner ends of which stop short of the axis of the casting, a ledge between said pockets to sustain a coin that fails to enter the pockets, a plurality of levers each having one end disposed beneath the inner end of a radial coin-pocket, and a stop sustained by the casing near the end of the carrier and adapted to be engaged by the other end of the said levers.

7. In an apparatus of the class described,

ing near the end of the carrier and adapted to be engaged by the other end of the said levers, and a back-stop to prevent backward movement of the carrier.

8. A picture-exhibiting apparatus comprising a box having a stop, a rotatable cylinder carrying pictures, a casting having longitudinal slots and coin-pockets of less depth than the radius of the casting, said pockets being radially arranged in said casting, levers pivoted in said slots and each having one end disposed beneath the inner end of a radial coin-pocket, said levers adapted to contact one after the other with said stop to arrest the forward rotation of the cylinder and a back-stop to act on said casting and insure a slight backward rotation of the cylinder to thereby relieve the levers carried thereby from contact with the stop preparatory to dropping a coin into a radial coin-pocket to start the apparatus.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

' JOHN G. F. ATSATT.

Witnesses:

GEO. W. GREGORY, J. EDWARD L. MOLEAN. 

